PixlBit

I started the day with a mall trip with Mark. Therein is the only retro store around, Jay Street Video Games. I was looking for Links 2004 on original Xbox because I heard Ryan McCaffrey on IGN’s Podcast Unlocked rave about its great online multiplayer. Yea, there’s no more online multiplayer on original Xbox, I know, but there’s still system link. This was the last golf game Microsoft Studios published before Powerstar Golf on Xbox One in 2013 and I wanted it.

               

I found it for under $5 at Jay Street and then browsed. Homefront got talked about on Podcast Unlocked too. The sequel is in the works by the studio that used to be known as Free Radical, the makers of the awesome TimeSplitters series, Haze, and Crysis 2 and 3. They first got bought out by Crytek and now most of them are working for Deep Silver on Homefront: The Revolution. I’m interested in this sequel not just because of the developer but because it will be set in Philadelphia, where I live only minutes from the city line. I’ve heard Homefront is a short game but a good one. I got it for $5, so it was a no brainer to pick up.

Then Mark handed me Namco Museum Volume 1 for Playstation. It was like $6. I wasn’t going to say no to that. It’s in great condition too. I know the other volumes are on PSN, so maybe sometime I’ll get those too.

Jay Street also had cards advertising the Too Many Games Convention that happens end of June right in my neighborhood. I want to make it there this year. I might even take the weekend off to go to all three days.

All this time I was picking up street passes on my 3DS. At one of the biggest malls in the world, King of Prussia Mall, there were plenty of people there and I ended up with a full ten Miis plus 10 Pokemon Shuffle and Fantasy Life street passes.

Then we picked up some pizzas and quarts of Baskin Robbins Ice cream and stopped at my usual Gamestop to get The Masters: Tiger Woods PGA 12 for Xbox 360. Mark had picked this up at Jay Street and I wanted to play too. I’m interested to see how multiplayer works in this game. It was $10 at Jay Street and $12 at Gamestop.

                             

                                                                 My Monky

Back at the tree fort, we played a bunch of Diablo III trying to speed run the acts with our Monkies (two monks, get it). You have to do each act in one hour for a challenge. Act IV is easily done, but the other acts proved really challenging. I think we did Act II in an hour and a half and at least 2 hours for Act III. I was level 56 and Mark level 29 when we started. That meant I was totally OP (over powered) and he was dangerously weak but power leveling. All I had to do was take out the biggest badies and let him do the rest, then dash for the objectives. He ended up at level 36 and I gained about 1/5 of a level. I picked up about 250k gold, which is still too little in my opinion.

Tomorrow though, it’s going to be all about golf as we boot up The Masters and see how that plays. Spring is here. Time for some clubbing.

That’s it. Stay crunchy picklebits!